Self-shock: The double-binding challenge of identity

Zaharna, R. S.

doi:10.1016/0147-1767(89)90026-6

Cited by 78 publications

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“…Interviewee statements echoed arguments that political correctness inhibits the development of trust between ethnically different group members by discouraging frank discussion, leaving individuals fearful of hidden thoughts and limiting the desire for further interactions (Ely et al, 2006;Jackson, 2008). In sum, the otherwise discomforting process of recognizing stereotype inconsistencies and their accompanying challenges to one's selfidentity (Zaharna, 1989) was steered toward cultural learning by social practices that repeatedly engendered the conditions of shared goals, common identity, fellowship, equal status, and interpersonal comfort.…”

Section: Social Practices For Intercultural Comfort and Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intercultural Comfort through Social Practices: Exploring Conditions for Cultural Learning

Bernstein

Salipante

2017

Front. Educ.

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High-quality cross-ethnic interactions contribute to college students' development, but knowledge is scant concerning campus settings and conditions that promote these interactions. This study indicates that distinct social practices in particular settings create such conditions. Phenomenological analysis of current and past members of a voluntary community service association (a pseudonym), appropriated to meet their social needs, revealed practices leading students from differing ethnic backgrounds to challenge stereotypes and engage in cultural learning. Inductively derived findings led to a transdisciplinary analysis that synthesizes concepts from institutional (higher education), organizational (voluntary service organization), interpersonal (social ties), and individual (personal development) levels. The emergent concept of intercultural comfort differentiated between meaningful diversity interactions within the student association and apprehensive ones elsewhere. Members experienced this intercultural comfort and an ethnically inclusive moral order due to mission-driven practices emphasizing shared purpose, fellowship, and structured interactions.

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Section: Social Practices For Intercultural Comfort and Interactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intercultural Comfort through Social Practices: Exploring Conditions for Cultural Learning

Bernstein

Salipante

2017

Front. Educ.

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“…Criticizing or rejecting the individual identities of family business members or encouraging them to subordinate these to family-based identities may intensify their efforts to find support for their unique individual identities (cf., Shibutani, 1961) and to focus attention on these (Zaharna, 1989).…”

Section: Boundary Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…They experience inconsistent, conflicting self-images; diminished self-confidence; and increased self-doubt, discomfort, confusion, and anxiety (Zaharna, 1989). These and other effects lessen their ability to work effectively and cooperate with others.…”

Section: Outcomes Associated With Identity Confirmationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unleashing the Relationship Power of Family Firms: Identity Confirmation as a Catalyst for Performance

Milton

2008

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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This paper adopts a broad perspective on identity and identity relations and argues that family businesses can develop identity confirmation as a unique, hard to imitate competitive resource that unleashes and leverages the relational capabilities that differentiate them from nonfamily businesses. A person's identities are "confirmed" in a business, to the extent they are supported therein. Identity and identity confirmation research is marshaled to consider the impact of identity confirmation on succession. Implications for other relational challenges family businesses face are explored. The potential for family business research to contribute to a general theory of the firm is illustrated.

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“…Likewise, Andrea Simon-Maeda states that self-identity "is not a static, preexisting entity but rather evolves through a dialectical relationship between different ways of interacting and speaking in the world" (Simon-Maeda, 2011, p. 17). Identity is recognized and constructed through interactions with others (Duff, 2012;Ting-Toomey, 1997Zaharna, 1989). It is not just a standalone entity that is asserted and uncritically accepted but instead it is developed through interactions with other people.…”

Section: Language Learning and Identitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Intercultural identity transformations among Japanese learners of English

Capobianco¹

2016

IJRSLL

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This paper examines how Japanese learners of English undergo identity transformations as they engage in the continued process of their language study. It will explain the material and conceptual changes that learners experience, demonstrate how learners develop greater intercultural orientations as a result of their study, and highlight the important role that meaningful interactions play in the progression of identity development. Concerning the lattermost objective, this paper suggests that there are at least two qualitatively different acts that account for different types of identity transformations in second language learners. The first is the act of studying a new language and the second is participation in meaningful interactions with members of the target language community. Each act serves as a discrete process through which revelations about personal identity can be realized. This paper establishes these arguments based upon intercultural communications theory, poststructuralist studies into second language acquisition, and the overall affective processes related to language learning.

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Self-shock: The double-binding challenge of identity

Cited by 78 publications

References 31 publications

Intercultural Comfort through Social Practices: Exploring Conditions for Cultural Learning

Intercultural Comfort through Social Practices: Exploring Conditions for Cultural Learning

Unleashing the Relationship Power of Family Firms: Identity Confirmation as a Catalyst for Performance

Intercultural identity transformations among Japanese learners of English

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